How do i remove office 2004

I recently updgraded to Lion OS and relaised that my office 2004 software will now not run. Ok, so upgrading to office 2011.
I now want to remove the office 2004 version from my imac to free up space on the hard drive, but when trying to run the remove software icon I cannot run that either due to power PC modules not being supported. Any thoughts on how I can do this please?

Ooooh, I was all headed toward pointing out the Remove Office Tool until I saw you'd tried it. As this is a farily new issue to the Mac community, you might be better served by asking in Microsoft's Community forums here:
Office for Mac forums
I suspect you'll need to remove Office manually and there may be some components left behind as a result, but they should not be too big. Anyway, try the MS forum--sometimes employees from their Macintosh Business Unit respond to posters. The MBU has some sharp Mac-savvy people.

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Drag the apps to the trash.

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The Office Test Drive folder is on my computer.....however, I have never launched anything in it.
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OFC2004TDFOLDERS: /Applications/Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
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QUESTION ....
Am I ignoring the obvious?
Since I have never launched anything in the "Office 2004 Test Drive" folder, might this mean that none of the apps are actually installed on this computer?
If so..... does this mean I can simply drag the entire "Test Drive" folder into the trash, empty trash, and all will be gone?
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It seems to me that when I did that I inserted the
new Office CD and using the uninstaller on the CD
removed the Test Drive.
Thanks for your help, Al.
When I insert the Office CD, I don't see an uninstaller....at least not immediately visible. All I see are 2 options:
Office Setup Assistant (recommended)
or
the Office folder which you can just drag to the hard drive to install all components.
Do you think the 'uninstaller' is in that first "Setup Assistant" option?
And if so.....what concerns me is that if it doesn't work (i.e., behaves like the "Remove" I've already tried to use)....will I still have the option of quitting, and going back and just dragging that folder to trash before continuing in the Setup Assistant?
Logic tells me that you're right....that by never having launched anything, none of the components of Office Test Drive are actually installed....no users or preferences or anything created. So probably I can just drag that folder to the trash. Problem is, I have very little faith/confidence/ that MY logic is anywhere near the same "logic" of Microsoft.
(am quite sure I fit the Apple profile....cause I definitely "think different.")
I'm wondering if the better part of wisdom might be to go ahead and trash that Test Drive folder.....then proceed with the Office Setup Assistant....and if an uninstall shows up in there, using it "just in case" anything was left behind? Sound reasonable to you?
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I installed the office 2004 software, and at the end of the installation it will give you the option to uninstall the test drive software. Good luck.

TS3938 I am not interested in updated software from MS. Is there another solution to removing Office 2004 completely?

Just upgraded to Lion and realize that MS Office 2004 is no longer supported. I am okay with that and not interested in a compatible version.
I went to use "uninstall" and because Power PC apps are no longer supported this function does not work either.
Is there a way to remove it completely without upgrading?
Thanks

Hello,
This page on Microsoft's website should help you :
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2004-macword/removing-offi ce-for-mac-2004-after-installing-lion/93c53d24-99ee-4018-97d7-bccfdb0ca95d
If you have more questions about that ask us here.
Hope this will help.

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Hi astray,
Ask your mom to mailed that back to you including the other license number. Uninstall one of them and reinstall using other Product key.
How many licenses that you have, if you want to install into two computer and your mom also use 1 licence, it count as three, and ussualy office only give you 2 licenses.
Here is link that might applied:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312232/en-us?spid=2490&sid=global
Visit Microsoft sites / forum to get more info since it more microsoft related than macintosh/ os x
Good Luck.

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Thanks--that's what I was afraid of.
I found the other versions of this question AFTER I posted mine--silly of me...and nice of you not to point it out.
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Sally
Message was edited by: Sally E Cohen

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1 - How do I even check how much memory I have left on this computer?
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4 - Does Apple still make batteries for this computer (from '07)? How much do they cost?
5 - How much does 1 more GB of memory cost?
I'll "ditto" sig's answers to these.
AND lastly -- is it even worth it to spend the $ on more RAM, a new battery and Office '11?
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